Michael Artin

Michael Artin is an American mathematician and professor emeritus in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and brought up in Indiana, the son of the algebraist Emil Artin. He did his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and took his PhD at Harvard University in 1960 under Oscar Zariski, with a thesis about Enriques surfaces. In the early 1960s he spent time at the IHÉS in France, contributing to the SGA4 volumes on topos theory and étale cohomology with Alexander Grothendieck.